Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale
Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale
Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Kees van Dongen
Femme nue assise
Lot Closed
June 30, 12:54 PM GMT
Estimate
24,000 - 34,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Europe
Kees van Dongen
1877 - 1968
Femme nue assise
signed Van Dongen. (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on panel
41 by 33cm., 16⅛ by 13in.
Framed: 63.5 by 56cm., 25 by 22in.
Painted circa 1898.
This work will be included in the forthcoming van Dongen Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Sale: Christie's, New York, 13th November 1985, lot 298
Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Anita Hopmans, "Paris, Rotterdam, puis Paris à nouveau: Du symbolisme au réalisme", in Van Dongen retrouvé. L'œuvre sur papier, 1895-1912 (exhibition catalogue), Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1997, illustrated in colour p. 41
(possibly) Paris, Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Kees van Dongen, 1904, no. 15
The model depicted here is probably Juliana Augusta "Guus" Preitinger, who van Dongen met as a student at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam and who would go on to become his wife.